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TruckOSaurus on 09 March 2016
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spemanig said:
Machina said:

Indeed I do. As someone who does his best to do whatever he promises to do and who hates to have unfinished projects hanging over him, I find it very frustrating.

 

One thing you mentioned that I find very important is the last bullet point where you mentioned how one of Truck's goals in particular is to gradually upgrade the site with new features. Can you ellaborate a little, because I think this in particular is of extreme importance.

Apart from the small fixes and features that I can do on week nights after work, I have many bigger projects that I think would be great for the site. 

- Bringing back the Prediction League. With Machina being reliable when it comes to keeping the numbers up to date, I think this would be a perfect tool to get the community involved in the numbers once again. For that to work, the HW situation would have to get better which pretty much means ioi (Brett) would have to give Machina control over the HW numbers. Worst comes to worst, the Prediction League could start off based solely on SW numbers at first.

- A mobile version of the site. That's a huge one. Both in amount of work required on my part and in the potential payoff for the site. In 2016, not having a mobile version is almost a crime. I don't have access to the site's stats but just from the comments on here, I know there's a whole lot of people navigating this site on the phones even though it's quite horrible to do so right now which tells me that a mobile version would be incredibly beneficial to the site.

- Bringing back to game DB. Before I know what I can do about this, I have some homework to do. VGC currently gets its data from GameWise but I'm not sure exactly how the transfer goes through. I think the first steps would be to bring back functionalities like the game collection having recent games and then I'd look into whether or not bringing back the adding/editing of games is possible.

SuperNova said:
iceland said:
I just want the existing features to work.

Game DB, Badges, collection, etc.

I realize it's not a simple 2 minute copypasta some code task but hopefully it can get done within this year or something.

Oh yeah, I've been meaning to ask, what is up with the badges? They never worked for me, so does this mean they are broken for the whole site?

The badge system works with a page I can access to hand out all the new badges. So it's not automatic, I've just launced that page so new badges will be handed out now.

SJReiter said:
Without delving too deep into the history of this site, could someone briefly explain what the "split" was that was mentioned in some of the above posts? I guess there was a group of members that left VGC for another site?

At first, they was only VGChartz and then it was split into many subsections gamrConnect, gamrTV, gamrFeed, VGC, gamrReview. Many sections were eventually abandoned. gamrReview continued for a while on its own website but it was merged backed into VGC in April last year.



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